Swansea City vs Watford Prediction: Watford aiming for automatic promotion spots

Swansea City will welcome Watford at Swansea.com Stadium in Game Week 14 of the English Championship. Watford are aiming for automatic promotion spots. Who will come out on top after 90 minutes?

Except for the very poor seasons in 2021-22, it ended at position 15 and 2023-24, where it ended at position 14. Swansea has been in playoffs contention since relegation from the Premier League in the 2017-18 season. However, despite a shocking poor run at the very outset of 2023-24, Swansea responded fairly well and started pushing towards a higher position. Of course, Luke Williams after coming to the side at January 2024 led to better days for the Swansea as the 2024-25 season started with intentions on reducing the gap which already widened with the leading trio fighting for the qualification position at the end. Despite such wide gap, once more the team was slower and made a slow move as in the previous campaigns as well. They did okay in the first six games with three wins and one draw but then lost successive games that dropped them lower in the table. However, they have been going on a winning spree since they won 2-1 against Oxford United where Zan Vipotnik and Florian Bianchini were the scorers. Williams will be aiming for back-to-back league wins as they face a test on Tuesday against Watford.

Vigouroux; Key, Cabango, Darling, Tymon; Grimes, Franco; Ronald, Allen, Bianchini; Vipotnik

Watford has a good start to the season so far as they seek the chance to return to the play-off places for the first time since relegation to the Premier League in the 2021-22 season. Watford is sitting fifth in the Championship standings with 22 points from 13 games, seven wins, one draw, and five losses. The team won their last game 6-2 against Sheffield Wednesday, which gave them confidence going into the game. The team has two wins and a draw in the last five games home and away, though they have only one win in their last three visits to the Swansea.com Stadium.

Bachmann; Ebosele, Sierralta, Pollock, Larouci; Baah, Ince, Dwomoh, Kayembe, Chakvetadze; Bayo.

Andrew Fisher, Ji-Sung Eom, Josh Ginnelly all out, while Josh Tymon serves a total ban for yellow card accumulation. Bianchini might make a start after scoring the winning goal in the game against Oxford United. Angelo Ogbonna, Jeremy Ngakia, and Tom Dele-Bashiru will be absent in Watford as they had injuries, and the player Ryan Porteous of this club will not play any matches as he has received yellow cards for consecutive games.

Tom Cleverley could repeat the same team that convincingly won 6-2 over Sheffield Weds in their last game. Swansea is playing at home, but Watford has been the better team so far in the 2024-25 season, and we expect them to win this game.